Comments on: USB Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit on Windows 7

By: Mat

Mat — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:58:46 +0000

Hello I am as well the owner of USB Soundblaster which runs on laptop Asus-C90S. I have the same problem “clicking noise”. I suppose that we all who visit this site have this problem. I haven't found a way to fix this but tried many things. I suppose that we have to wait till guys from sounblaster will wake up and release new drivers :] …

By: murcielago711

murcielago711 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:25:50 +0000

Hey, so I've figured out a sort of fix. It doesn't outright stop the problem but its stops the clicking noise 90% of the time for me. I figured I'd post it here in case it works for anyone else.
I'm using a laptop, though I think the fix would still work for a desktop, though I don't see too many people with usb sound cards for their desktops.

But what I did was open up the control panel sound panel. Under the playback tab, I right clicked in open space and clicked show disabled devices. I then disabled the on-board audio (for me it's Conextant and comes up as High Definition Audio Device, but it may/probably will come up as something different for others, e.g. RealTEK or DSD or something like that) so that the only viable playback device was the usb sound card (Sound Blaster live! 24-bit External) (the first step isn't entirely necessary, it just makes it easier to re-enable the on-board audio.

Hope it helps!

By: mx

mx — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:54:25 +0000

By: david34

david34 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:15:35 +0000

Like this

By: mary2009xc

mary2009xc — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:08:43 +0000

Window7 it is really fine. I enjoy it!
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By: carlos73

carlos73 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:22:48 +0000

Thank you very much!
With 7 just installed it worked but with some ranom lacks of sound. I downloaded vista drivers from Creative website and just installed the driver without the whole sw set, but it was the same as before. I tried to install it complete but it was impossible due to compatibility issues.
With this W7 beta river all seems to work fine for now.

I don't konw how the hell manufacturers as Creative offers this lousy support in their web.
Thanks again.

Carlos (Win 7 32b on Vaio Z21WN. Drivers from Vaio for W7 64 doesn't work preety well. Always the same bullshit. )

By: dan_vaida

dan_vaida — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:23:14 +0000

Hello Gabriele. I was just on the point of writing an update for this post. It seems I am experiencing the same issues as you are. I opened a thread on Creative's forums in search for a solution but found none yet. Now I am experiencing a dead subwoofer in some applications (Winamp) but sounds ok on MP11. Even as we speak weird pops are coming out of my speakers.
Here is the thread address: http://is.gd/3DBIH
Be sure that I will notify you if I manage to work it out. Please do so yourself. Thank you.

By: Gabriele

Gabriele — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:31:23 +0000

I'm a proud owner of a SB 24bit USB, and I too managed to download the latest W7 driver. Problem is it seems rather poorly developed, and whenever I stop an audio flow my speaker clicks and hisses. It sometimes happens during a song, doesn't matter whether on youtube or through fb2k. Have you experienced such issues too?